The Great Thirst also revived an ancient technology: cisterns. Across the state, the roofs of homes and commercial buildings were covered with sheet metal or treated with special polymer ...

While working on “Properties of Thirst,” Wiggins suffered a massive stroke. She recovered and with help finished the great American novel of 2022.

In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote: “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.” These words may have been penned in the 1700s, but the ...

The Great Thirst: William Mulholland is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, ...

In a slender essay titled "Here Is New York," E.B. White wrote about the implausibility of the great city, mentioning among other things the millions of gallons of water needed each day just so ...